Miguel Abreu Gallery is pleased to announce the opening\, on
Sunday\, September 16th\, of night curtain\, Rey Akdogan’s first solo exhi
bition at the gallery.One of the particularities of the show is that
it will be open to the public in the evening and night only\, from dusk to
midnight\, Wednesday through Sunday. Within these late and dark hours of op
eration\, Akdogan’s work will repurpose and sharpen lighting conditions\, b
oth those from the gallery’s varied existing scheme and those immediately r
eceived from the street. But the unquestioned norms and fleeting memory of
other environments\, ranging from industrial warehouses\, aircraft hangars\
, factories\, supermarkets\, and perhaps even movie theatres\, will also re
sonate in the space somewhat ambiguously. An initially hidden\, tweaked\, o
versized industrial ceiling fan producing shadow effects\; ambertoned trans
lucent PVC strips bisecting parts of the space\; a discrete step light posi
tioned near an electrical outlet\, along with projected slides made of thea
ter lighting gels and a leftover piece of kiwi bag packaging\, will all con
tribute to building the oblique\, heightened atmospheric charge that\, in t
he end\, can be called the show.